Hartlepool United: Club history
West Hartlepool Amateur Football Club was the first recorded outfit playing to Association rules in the town from 1881. In 1905 they won the F.A. Amateur Cup, beating Clapton 3-2 at Shepherd’s Bush, London. In 1908 the town’s Rugby Club, whose home was Victoria Ground, folded, and a professional football club was formed to avail itself of the opportunity to take over the ground. Snappily named ‘The Hartlepools United Football Athletic Company Limited’ it adopted the “Hartlepools” bit on the grounds that its aim was to unite the two boroughs of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool. However West Hartlepool Amateur Football Club were having none of it and continued as a separate entity. Slightly bizarrely, with Victoria Ground being in West Hartlepool, Hartlepools United and West Hartlepool Amateur Football Club then played at the same ground until the amateurs folded in 1910. Hartlepools United could now justifiably claim to represent the whole town.Victoria Ground achieved what must surely be a unique feat in the First World War. It was bombed by a Zeppelin and shelled by the Kaiser’s navy. Perhaps it was a German not a French monkey they’d hanged all those years before, and revenge was being sought?
After the War the club played in the Northern Victory League for a season, then the North-East League. In 1921 they were given one of the automatic places in the Football League’s newly formed Division Three North. And there they remained, with little more excitement than the occasional need for re-election, until 1958 when the reorganisation of the Football League saw them into Division Four. They continued there, with even Brian Clough, in his first managerial appointment from 1965-67, unable to get them up. However he and Peter Taylor had sown seeds, and the following season Hartlepools United achieved their first ever promotion, finishing third. They dropped the ‘s’ and ‘United’ and the very next season it was Hartlepool who were….. relegated straight back down. The season after that they were back in the re-election mix once again. And the season after that. And twice more before the Seventies were out. And in the Eighties……. Bitter? Us?
In 1990-91 Hartlepool United (the ‘United’ but not the ‘s’ had been restored in 1977) achieved their second promotion, again in third place. This time they lasted three seasons. During this time they achieved a Football League record of 1,227 minutes without scoring and came close to being wound up.
They must like fiddling with names in Hartlepool. Back in the bottom division again they decided in 1995 that Victoria Ground would be called Victoria Park.
In 1997 the club was bought by Increased Oil Recovery Ltd. In Hartlepool terms the new century has been a bonanza of success. From 2000-2002 under Chris Turner they made the play-offs three years in a row, only to lose out each time. In 2002-03 they looked as if they were going to storm the division. Turner left for Sheffield Wednesday in November but they went an absolute mile ahead. However the massive lead was squandered and Rushden & Diamonds took the title. Although they did finish second and got their third promotion Mike Newell’s contract was not renewed. The following season under Neale Cooper they were in the Second Division play-offs but were knocked out by Bristol City. In 2004-05 they were closing in on a play-off place once again when Cooper walked out. Martin Scott stepped up on a caretaker basis and took them through the Semi-Finals against red hot favourites Tranmere Rovers and on to the Millennium Stadium. They lost out to Sheffield Wednesday in extra time but Scott was rewarded with the manager’s job on a permanent basis.
After all of those years of success, the 2005-06 season was not a good one. After reaching the play-off final, they played the “play-off final loser always has a hangover season” card superbly, with Scott fired for poor results by February, and his successor Paul Stephenson faring even worse, lasting only until the end of the season as the managerial change failed to alter their downward spiral and relegation to League Two was confirmed.
Hartlepool appointed former Bristol City manager Danny Wilson – the man who was City’s manager when Hartlepool were knocked out of the play-offs in 2003-04, but had also been fired after failing to take City one step further. Wilson had also been fired by MK Dons, but he showed his managerial prowess was still there – taking them back to League One in his first season in charge, and in doing so denying his former club MK Dons a chance to do the same.
In their first season back, in 2007-08, they did well enough, without pulling up any trees along the way, finishing mid-table in 15th, and that was followed up by a 19th in the following season. Matters last season (2009-10) got decidedly more squeaky, surviving in 20th place on the final day of the season, and only then on goal difference. Their selection of defender Gary Liddle on Easter Monday saw a long drawn out disciplinary process that saw them deducted points for fielding Liddle whilst suspended. An emotional manager Chris Turner broke down in their post-match press conference, clearly feeling the pressure, and so it was perhaps not too surprising when he resigned early on in the 2010-11 season, pretty much saying that he didn’t think that Hartlepool had the players to stay in League One.
Mick Wadsworth was the man hired to prove Turner wrong, and so he did, with the Durham club finishing a comfortable 16th place at the end of that campaign. Better followed, with a 13th place finish for 2011-12, but during his third season his luck ran out, and with them rock bottom of the table, Wadsworth was shown the door. The change didn’t have much effect as they finished in 23rd place and propped up by a points-deducted Portsmouth. A 17 month reign of Colin Cooper that was followed by a fair bit of dithering with Paul Murray’s seven (SEVEN!) game spell as manager part of a shambolic 2014-15 season that almost saw them drop out of the Football League. The arrival of Ronnie Moore sparked a bit of a houdini act that somehow stopped that happening.
Hartlepool’s recent history really starts to tilt on its axis in February 2016. Ronnie Moore, the man who had engineered the “Great Escape” the previous season, was sacked on 10 February 2016 with Pools 22nd in League Two after a home defeat left them back in the relegation scrap. Former Middlesbrough midfielder Craig Hignett was appointed the same day, and he steadied things enough for Hartlepool to climb to a relatively comfortable 16th by the end of 2015–16; they also reached the third round of the FA Cup that year, a reminder there was still some life in the old dog.
The following season brought the gut punch. In 2016–17 Hartlepool slid towards the drop despite further managerial changes, and their fate was decided in one of the more notorious final days in recent EFL history. Hartlepool beat Doncaster Rovers 2–1 at Victoria Park, Devante Rodney scoring twice to turn the game around and briefly spark wild celebrations, but Mark O’Brien’s 89th-minute winner for Newport County against Notts County meant Pools finished 23rd and were relegated from the Football League for the first time in 109 years. The win that denied Doncaster the title still wasn’t enough to save them.
Down in the National League in 2017–18 and 2018–19, Hartlepool became a mid-table non-league club almost overnight. They finished 15th and then 16th, with only modest cup returns – early exits in the FA Cup and FA Trophy – and little sense of real momentum on the pitch. Off the pitch, though, the story was existential. By early 2018 the club, under Sage Investment, was under a transfer embargo and widely reported to be days from liquidation. Businessman Raj Singh completed a last-gasp takeover in April 2018, committing more than £1.2m, lifting the embargo and effectively keeping Hartlepool alive.
Results began to improve slowly. The COVID-hit 2019–20 campaign saw Pools in the play-off conversation at times, eventually finishing 9th/12th on points-per-game in the National League, with a third-round FA Cup appearance and a brief FA Trophy run but nothing spectacular. The real upswing came in 2020–21 under Dave Challinor: Hartlepool finished 4th, then beat Bromley and Stockport County in the play-offs before that dramatic promotion final at Ashton Gate. They led Torquay United until stoppage time, conceded a famous headed equaliser from goalkeeper Lucas Covolan, and still held their nerve to win 5–4 on penalties and reclaim a place in League Two after four years away.
Their first season back in the EFL, 2021–22, was a mixed bag in the league but a high point in the cups. Hartlepool finished 17th in League Two, comfortably clear of the relegation fight, yet delivered one of the most eye-catching campaigns in their modern history in knock-out competitions. They reached the fourth round of the FA Cup – matching the club’s best – where they took 22,000-plus to Selhurst Park before losing 2–0 to Crystal Palace, and they also made the semi-finals of the EFL Trophy, going out on penalties to Rotherham United. For a season and a bit, Raj Singh could point to upward mobility on the pitch as justification for the rescue job he’d financed.
That glow faded quickly. In 2022–23 Hartlepool lurched from one struggle to another in League Two amid further managerial changes. They were effectively doomed by a home defeat to Crawley Town in April, and while they did win at Barrow late on, relegation back to the National League was confirmed, with Pools finishing 23rd. Off the field, Singh announced in April 2023 that the club was being put up for sale, citing both relegation and supporter discontent with how the club was being run.
Since returning to the fifth tier, Hartlepool have been stuck in limbo: too good to be in real danger, not good enough to challenge. They finished 12th in 2023–24 and 11th in 2024–25, scoring freely but conceding heavily, with only qualifying-round exits in the FA Cup and a couple of deeper FA Trophy runs to show for their efforts. The glow of the 2021 promotion and 2022 cup exploits has felt increasingly distant.
Meanwhile, the off-the-field story under Raj Singh has turned from “saviour” narrative to protracted soap opera. After putting the club up for sale in 2023, Singh rejected at least one “final” offer from a mystery consortium including members of the Supporters’ Trust, and he even briefly banned the local Hartlepool Mail from home matches before that decision was reversed. In 2025 he stepped down as chairman, confirming that the club had officially been on the market since April 2023 and promising to fund wages and key operations until season’s end while a new buyer was sought.
Relations with supporters and club figures have become increasingly toxic. The long-running takeover saga and stalled progress led honorary president and Sky Sports News presenter Jeff Stelling to resign in protest in 2025, criticising the way potential buyers were being handled and warning about the damage to the club’s future. The row escalated when Singh asked other National League clubs to bar Stelling from their boardrooms during Hartlepool games, prompting public criticism from local politicians and further alienating parts of the fanbase.
On the touchline, that off-field instability has been mirrored by a revolving door of managers. Since relegation in 2023 Pools have cycled through a series of short-term appointments, and in 2025 the club made national headlines again after appointing former Premier League defender Simon Grayson in June and sacking him a few months later. Grayson’s dismissal – after one win in 11 games and with Hartlepool mid-table in the National League – made him the fifth permanent manager in roughly a year, sparking further criticism from Stelling and others about the direction of the club.
In summary, from Ronnie Moore’s sacking in February 2016 to the present, Hartlepool United’s fortunes have been a full-blown rollercoaster: survival and then relegation from the EFL, a mid-table non-league existence, a dramatic promotion and memorable FA Cup and EFL Trophy runs, followed by another drop and now a frustrating spell of National League mid-table obscurity. Off the pitch, Raj Singh’s era has moved from last-minute rescue and promotion-funding to strained relations, takeover stalemates and public spats with high-profile supporters. The club remains up for sale, the fanbase remains restless, and the overwhelming sense is that Hartlepool are still waiting for their next genuinely stable chapter to begin.
Hartlepool United: We’ve Met Before
Previous Results for Yeovil Town First Team vs Hartlepool United
| 03/09/2005 | Away | CCL1 | W | 1-0 | 4572 | Bastianini 68 | ||
| 07/01/2006 | Home | CCL1 | W | 2-0 | 5480 | Jevons 26, 60 | ||
| 08/12/2007 | Home | CCL1 | W | 3-1 | 4694 | Skiverton 27, Stewart 31, Owusu 77 | ||
| 24/03/2008 | Away | CCL1 | L | 0-2 | 3808 | |||
| 06/12/2008 | Away | CCL1 | D | 0-0 | 3393 | |||
| 18/04/2009 | Home | CCL1 | L | 2-3 | 4332 | Tomlin 7, Townsend 57 | ||
| 19/12/2009 | Away | CCL1 | D | 1-1 | 2778 | S. Williams 33 | ||
| 13/03/2010 | Home | CCL1 | W | 4-0 | 4169 | Tomlin 20, G Williams 38, Own Goal 50, Bowditch 71 | ||
| 21/08/2010 | Home | NPL1 | L | 0-2 | 3537 | |||
| 14/12/2010 | Away | FAC2 | L | 2-4 | 1914 | A Williams 18, Upson 31 | ||
| 09/04/2011 | Away | NPL1 | L | 1-3 | 2834 | Obika 10 | ||
| 26/11/2011 | Away | NPL1 | W | 1-0 | 4604 | N’Gala 25 | ||
| 24/03/2012 | Home | NPL1 | L | 1-0 | 4033 | |||
| 10/11/2012 | Home | NPL1 | W | 1-0 | 3095 | Edwards 7 | ||
| 09/03/2013 | Away | FL2 | D | 0-0 | 3633 | |||
| 26/09/2015 | Home | FL2 | L | 1-2 | 3078 | Bird 37 | ||
| 13/02/2016 | Away | FL2 | L | 1-2 | 3923 | Zoko 90 | ||
| 10/09/2016 | Home | EFL2 | L | 1-2 | 2749 | Butcher 56 | ||
| 04/02/2017 | Away | EFL2 | D | 1-1 | 3410 | Dolan 69 | ||
| 05/10/2019 | Away | NLP | L | 1-2 | Murphy 90+1 | |||
| 12/11/2019 | Home | FAC1 | L | 1-4 | D’Ath 3 | |||
| 18/01/2020 | Home | NLP | D | 2-2 | Worthington 23, Lee 42 | |||
| 21/11/2020 | Home | NLP | L | 1-3 | Quigley 45+1 | |||
| 20/02/2021 | Away | NLP | L | 1-2 | Knowles 54 | |||
| 10/08/2024 | Home | NLP | L | 0-1 | ||||
| 21/12/2024 | Away | NLP | L | 1-2 | 3,420 | Shaw 80 | ||
| 09/08/2025 | Home | NLP | D | 0-0 |
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| 06/12/2025 | Away | NLP | ||||||
Results Summary For Yeovil Town First Team vs Hartlepool United
| Home | Away | Overall | ||||||||||||
| W | D | L | F | A | W | D | L | F | A | W | D | L | F | A |
| 4 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 28 | 36 |
Hartlepool United: Club Statistics
| 27/09/2025 | Tamworth | Home | NLP | D | 1-1 | 3467 | Oliver 71 | |
| 01/10/2025 | Carlisle United | Away | NLP | L | 1-3 | 6170 | Francis 46 | |
| 04/10/2025 | York City | Home | NLP | L | 1-2 | 4428 | Oliver 88 | |
| 11/10/2025 | Gainsborough Trinity | Away | FAC4Q | D | 1-1 | 1487 | ||
| 14/10/2025 | Gainsborough Trinity | Home | FAC4QR | L | 1-3 | 1267 | ||
| 18/10/2025 | Sutton United | Away | NLP | D | 3-3 | 2557 | Charman 52, Oliver 66, Francis 84 | |
| 25/10/2025 | Solihull Moors | Home | NLP | W | 2-0 | 3011 | Oliver 16, Daly 90+4 | |
| 04/11/2025 | Morecambe | Home | NLP | D | 1-1 | 3122 | Campbell 3 | |
| 08/11/2025 | FC Halifax Town | Away | NLP | W | 1-0 | 1805 | Campbell 71 | |
| 15/11/2025 | Wealdstone | Home | NLP | D | 1-1 | 3394 | Reid 3 | |
| 22/11/2025 | Eastleigh | Away | NLP | W | 2-0 | 2473 | John 49, Sheron 53 | |
| 29/11/2025 | Truro City | Home | NLP | |||||
CURRENT LEAGUE SEQUENCE STATISTICS
| Games Without A Win: | Games Without A Home Win: | |||
| Games Without An Away Win: | 0 | Games Without Defeat: | ||
| Games Without A Home Defeat: | Games Without An Away Defeat: | 4 | ||
| Games Without A Draw: | Games Without A Score Draw: | |||
| Games Without A No-Score Draw: | Games Without Scoring: | |||
| Games Without Conceding: | Home Results Sequence: | |||
| Away Results Sequence: | LWLDWW | Overall Results Sequence: |
ATTENDANCE STATISTICS
Highest League Attendance:
Lowest League Attendance:
Average League Home Attendance:
Hartlepool United: Club Information
Victoria Park
Clarence Rd
Hartlepool
TS24 8BZ
Click for map.
What 3 Words: //w3w.co/statue.trade.ozone
Telephone Number: 01429 272 58
Fax: 01429 863 007
Interim Chief Executive: Raj Singh
Honorary President: Jeff Stelling
Head of Football Operations: Joe Monks
Operations Manager: Kelly Clarkson
Safety Officer: Carl Broughton
Media & Communications Officer: Josh Youll
Team Manager: Nicky Featherstone (interim manager)
Capacity: 7865
Seated: 4180
Record Attendance: 17,426 v Manchester United, F.A. Cup R3, 05/01/1957
Home kit: shirt blue and white stripes, shorts blue, socks white
Nickname: Pools (though colloquially The Monkey Hangers is possibly more popular, at least with away fans!)
Programme: £3.00
Ticketing
Tickets are on sale for our traditional December visit to Hartlepool – where else would you want to go in the middle of winter? – are on sale. You can buy tickets – HERE.
Anyone who has visited Victoria Park will recall the Hartlepool Cable Services Stand, also known as The Rink End, which is an unallocated, all-seated stand that has a maximum capacity 800. There is no terraced area available for away supporters. There are space for seven wheelchair users (plus carers) within the stand. Wheelchair entry for away fans is on the West Stand through the car park (Acland Homes Stand side). The stand is located on Clarence Road and the turnstiles are adjacent to the main office building, ticket office and shop.
Tickets
Tickets are charged at the following prices:
- Adult £22
- Concessions £16 (Over 65s, Students, Armed Forces, 18-21s)
- Under 18 £11
- Under 14 £6
- Under 5 Free when purchased with a full paying adult
*Ambulant Disabled/Wheelchair tickets are sold at the relevant category as above and a free companion ticket will be issued for those in receipt of Higher Rate Disability Allowance or Enhanced PIP (must be shown).
*Under 14s will not be allowed entry to The Prestige Group Stadium without an adult.
*Tickets are issued electronically as standard. There will be a £1 additional charge for paper tickets (including postage) and this should be chosen as your delivery method at checkout.
The Club Ticket Office is open from 10am to kick-off on a match day
Please be advised that we may ask for ID for concessions when they reach the turnstiles. It’s not always easy to gauge how old somebody is, so if you are stopped please don’t take offence and be prepared if you look older/younger than your age. We will always ask for Student and Veteran ID so please make sure you carry this with you.
If you are unable to provide the relevant ID when stopped you may be required to pay adult price.
Under 5s can attend for free when accompanied by a full paying adult but they will require a ticket so please ensure you order this along with the rest of your party.
Turnstiles will open 90 minutes before kick off.
You can contact the Ticket Office on 01429 272584 (option 2) or email tickets@hartlepoolunited.co.uk.
Official Away Travel
The Green & White Supporters’ Club is running away travel to Hartlepool United on Saturday 6th December, 3p.m. kick-off.
Details are as follows:
Members: Adults – £52, Concessions – £50
Non-Members: Adults – £55, Concessions – £52
Coach departs Huish Park: 6.00am
To book, call Paul Hadlow on 07736 044570.
\You may be asked to pay a £5 deposit to reserve your seat.
Hartlepool United: Directions To The Ground
By anyone’s estimate, the distance between Yeovil and Hartlepool is a long way. The good thing (such as it is) is that Victoria Park has not moved since it opened in 1908 – so if you’ve been before there’s a good chance it will be in a familiar spot.
By Road
From the South:
We’ll presume that the sort of dedicated lunatics heading to Victoria Park will be the types who have already done the trip before, or places like Darlington, and will remember how to get that far on the A1(M). For the details as you close in on your destination: exit the A1(M) at Junction 60, taking the A689 eastwards the 16 miles to Hartlepool. This is mostly dual carriageway, with two sections of normal road.As you come into the outskirts of the town you’ll meet a roundabout by the Owton Lodge pub. Keep on the A689 (signposted ‘Town Centre’) and follow Town Centre signs for another 2.8 miles over two more roundabouts. At the traffic lights just past the Blacksmiths Arms (on your left), go straight on. At the next traffic lights go straight on again. This takes you over the bridge into the marina complex. Keep straight on again at the roundabout and into Marina Way. This is the area for the Jackson’s Wharf parking (see below). To get to the ground itself continue to the next roundabout and turn left (signposted ‘The North A179, A1048’). Turn left at the lights into Clarence Road and you’ll see the stadium.
Alternatively you can leave the A1(M) at Junction 49, taking the A168 across to Thirsk where you pick up the A19. This is a more direct route and dual carriageway all the way, though whether quicker or not in practice we can’t say. Probably depends on the amount of traffic you hit as the road slices through the Middlesbrough / Stockton-on-Tees conurbation. The A19 meets the A689 about 7 miles out of Hartlepool. Go east on the A689 for Hartlepool and when you reach the outskirts it’s the same directions as above.
From the North:
If you live even further North than Hartlepool, God help you.
Parking
There is a limited number of matchday parking spaces at the stadium though these are booked on a first come, first served basis. There is also a car park behind the Acland Homes (Neale Cooper) Stand and street parking around Raby Road.
Be aware that Clarence Road is closed off to general traffic 2 hours prior to kick off. For car park and disabled spaces please use North entrance (Middleton Road).
Jackson’s Wharf – The Highlight, Hartlepool TS24 0XN – Jackson’s Wharf, part of the marina complex, has free parking and is a few minutes walk from the stadium.
Hartlepool Transport Interchange – Lynn Street Hartlepool TS24 7ED
125 long-stay spaces, 7 disabled spaces. Prices: 1–2hrs – £1.60, 3hrs £2.10, 10hrs – £2.60, 24hrs £5 .70.
Middleton Grange Shopping Centre – Victoria Rd, Hartlepool TS24 7RZ
A ten-minute walk to the ground with over 900 spaces available. Up to five hours of parking will not cost you more than £3.60, but there’s lots of different prices for different locations – see here. Be aware, this car park closes at 6.30pm on a Saturday if you are…err…sticking around in Hartlepool.
Near to the Millhouse Pub (TS24 8AP ) off Raby Road is a car park which charges £3 on matchdays. Otherwise, there is some street parking albeit a bit of a distance away, as a residents-only parking scheme is in operation on matchdays around the ground.
Do not park in the nearby Asda car park. They have a clamping policy for those they deem not to be genuine customers.
By Rail
Almost all rail journeys to and from Hartlepool and anywhere seem to require a change at Thornaby (Stockton-on-Tees), with the very occasional option of a through train to / from Darlington.
The Railway Station is about half a mile by foot, thus ten minutes walk, to the ground. Exit the station onto Church Street and turn right into Church Square. Follow the road out of Church Square and you’ll already be able to see the floodlights. Cross over the A179 and bear right into Clarence Road. That’s it.
By Taxi
There are a number of taxi ranks around Hartlepool. Alternatively a selection of taxi firms based in Hartlepool can be found here.
Web Sites
Hartlepool United Official Site
Hartlepool United Official Twitter/X Account
The Poolie Bunker – some kind of internet forum thing
Hartlepool United Supporters’ Trust – self-explanatory
Local Press
Hartlepool Life – a publication about life in Hartlepool, one presumes
Hartlepool United: Food & Drink
General
The Marina area, a few minutes walk from Victoria Park, has a number of rather sterile fast food outlets, restaurants and bars, although Jackson’s Wharf is worth a try. Alternatively five minutes along Clarence Road will bring you to the town centre. Church Street and Church Square (by the Railway Station) have a load of pubs and bars cheek by jowl, with more in the immediate side streets. A couple have been listed below. Probably the very closest pub to the ground is the Millhouse Inn but as it is at the home end there doesn’t seem a lot of point trying to squeeze in with myriads of Pools fans waiting to be served.
The brewery in Hartlepool is Camerons: The Lion Brewery. Founded in 1865, things looked bleak between the Seventies and Nineties when it was bought and sold a total of four times by large brewers. Thankfully in 2002 the other excellent brewery based in Hartlepool, Castle Eden, bought the Lion Brewery and combined production of its own beers and Cameron’s on the one site. There’s been some streamlining of brands since, with a few beers sadly lost, however at least it’s back in independent hands and the future looks reasonably rosy. Under the Camerons label three beers are produced all year round in both cask and keg form, of which Strongarm is probably the best known. There’s also Banner Bitter and Long Leg solely in cask form. From the Castle Eden stable Castle Eden Ale and Nimmo’s XXXX have been maintained, as has that label’s range of four seasonal ales. The Castle Eden Inn, some miles outside Hartlepool, where it all began in 1826, now only stocks one Castle Eden beer on an occasional basis.
Club Bar
The Victoria Suite near the away turnstiles is for members only. However the Centenary Bar situated on Clarence Road by the Cyril Knowles Stand and the main club offices, welcomes visiting fans both before and after matches. We’ve also had no problems getting into the Corner Flag, which is their Supporters Club bar, although there is a small charge for entry. There is a bar facility inside the away end – but please not that it is card payment only in there.
Inside the ground there is a small bar serving a limited range and food buying facilities.
Local Pubs
We’ll be honest, there’s not a huge amount to get excited about in monkey hanger land. So we’re going for quality over quantity – but in the context of it……you get the idea!
Jackson’s Wharf: Just a few minutes walk from the away end in the marina development, but has been popular with home fans as well as visitors. Does a wide range of drinks including some real ale, and serves food. Has Sky Sports. Masses of free parking all around. Website.
Jackson’s Wharf, Hartlepool Marina, Hartlepool, Durham, TS24 0XZ. Tel: 01429 862963. Map: Click Here.
Rat Race Ale House: Second Micropub in the Country to Open – attached to Hartlepool Train Station. Opening times: Sat 12:02-21:00 (Note quirky Opening Time). Regular beers: Four Changing Cask Ales & Two Ciders/Perry
Rat Race Ale House, Station Approach, Hartlepool, TS24 7EB. Tel: 07903 479378. Map: Click Here.
Ward Jackson (Wetherspoons): Pub named after a local shipbuilder. Regular beers: Usual Spoons Range with up to 4 Guest Cask Ales. Regular beers: Usual Spoons Range with up to 4 Guest Cask Ales. Opening times: Sat 08:00-01:00. Website.
Ward Jackson, 3-9 Church Square, Hartlepool, TS24 7EY. Tel: 01429 850140. Map: Click Here.
Camerons Brewery Tap & Bottle Shop: Opened in derelict pub that Camerons discovered it owned. Regular beers: Flagship Beer Strongarm + two Monthly Specials on Cask. Opening times: Sat 12:00-22:00. Website.
Camerons Brewery Tap & Bottle Shop, Stockton Street, Hartlepool, TS24 7QS. Tel: 01429 868686. Map.
Causeway: A beer house licence has been held since 1862 at this unspoilt CAMRA award winning red brick Victorian pub beside Camerons brewery and Stranton church. With its real fires, four rooms, covered walled garden, live music most evenings, Tuesday quiz and five cask ales: Strongarm and Mansfield Bitter plus three changing beers from the Marstons range of monthly specials altogether making this a place very much worth a visit. Within walking distance of the ground. Regular beers: Five Cask Ales – usually Camerons Strongarm, Mansfield Bitter & 3 Guests. Opening times: Sat 12:00-00:00.
Causeway, Vicarage Gardens, Hartlepool, TS24 7QT. Tel: 01429 263000 Map.
Likelihood the Natives Will Understand You :
In Hugh’s poverty stricken student hitching days I once got a lift of over 200 miles with a lorry driver from the North-East. He talked non-stop for four hours and in that time, what with the roar of the engine and the broad ‘Geordie’ accent, I understood not one single word. It seemed to matter naught. On the brief occasions he paused for a split second to suck in some oxygen a random ‘yep’ or ‘nope’ was sufficient to launch him on again.
Top-Tip :
Take some warm clothing. If you don’t believe us you obviously haven’t been there before or to places like Grimsby! If the wind is whipping off that North Sea it is COLD. And if it turns out that global warming has reached Hartlepool one day a decade then just leave those thermals in the car.
[No responsibility is taken for any inaccuracies. This page is entirely the product of bias and prejudice.]